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Hi Brenda,
If we revealed our true nature and acted genuinely, then we would all see that we’re 100% egoists thinking only about our own benefit. Even if we try to do something nice for others, that too stems from our egoistic nature.
But that’s okay. No one is demanding of us to be saints. No one is demanding of us to have superhuman strength and to conquer our ego. All that we need to do, and all that we’re capable of doing actually, is just to try. That’s it. We just need to try to be above the ego. We don’t need to succeed, we just need to try. When we make such efforts in the Kabbalistic group and while studying the Kabbalistic sources, that’s enough to extract the reforming light which works on us and turns this aspiration into something real.
See my reply 491790 below to Steven and check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2012/03/building-blocks-of-the-first-spiritual-degree/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Ricardo,
When the point in the heart awakens, we naturally lose flavor in the rest of our desires and feel that our desire for spirituality is the most important part of life. But as we progress on the spiritual path, the rest of our desires begin to grow more and more in order to give us room for spiritual work.
Our desires turn into a type of mountain that we climb over. The bigger the desires, the higher we can climb, and the higher the spiritual degree that we can attain. On the other hand, if we were to eliminate our desires, then accordingly, we would only be able to attain a tiny degree of spiritual attainment.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/02/the-worse-the-better/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Erick,
Faith refers to the quality of bestowal. Reason refers to our egoistic nature or reception. Faith above reason is the process by which we make bestowal more important than reception.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Migara,
The Creator, and everything He sends us, operates on the frequency of bestowal. While we are looking at life through the lens of reception. As such, we operate on two completely different frequencies. So it’s currently impossible for us to understand Him. We first need to correct our nature and become similar to Him. Only then will we begin to understand Him and to comprehend properly all that we see in life.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/09/learn-the-creators-language/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Bib,
Kabbalistic writings don’t talk about Jesus. So we could speculate one way or another whether he was a Kabbalist or not, but these would just be speculations. We should keep in mind that Kabbalah is a science. Kabbalah only deals with the correction of our egoistic nature and the revelation of the Creator. It has no connection to faith, religion, or religious leaders.
But ultimately these things are not so opposed. Both talk about the importance of loving others as yourself. Kabbalah goes even further and gives us a method to actualize loving others to such an extent that we can reveal in our lives the Creator, the general force of love and bestowal.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Claire,
The Kabbalists tell us that “love the other as yourself” is the main rule that we need to follow to correct everything.
Just keep in mind that we practice this type of spiritual work primarily in the Kabbalah group. The Kabbalah group is like a lab where we practice manifesting the Creator’s qualities of love and bestowal. In the group we build a strong connection with other points in the heart that are together with us on the spiritual path. This becomes like a nucleus. Once we build that nucleus, we will be able to add to it wider and wider circles of the world, until we’ll come to include the whole world in that connection. But this is gradual work. And until we build that nucleus, we have nothing with which to do any spiritual work towards the world.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2015/09/where-is-the-upper-world/
Albert @ KabU
